I don't have any boring-ass neolib friends who are also politics-pilled. Is Glenn still relevant to people? I would imagine he's chilling with Matt Taibbi in the "we stopped giving a fuck" zone, but I figured I'd ask.
A bisexual weirdo with a love of sci-fi, flaring bouts of low self-esteem, good leftist politics, overactive empathy, and you work in IT? You might as well have just said "human fighter".
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I don't have any boring-ass neolib friends who are also politics-pilled. Is Glenn still relevant to people? I would imagine he's chilling with Matt Taibbi in the "we stopped giving a fuck" zone, but I figured I'd ask.
The best cartoons were the ones that tried to teach you something in an interesting way - not just a "More You Know" at the end, but the characters learned and grew. They were often an education in morality.
Saturday mornings, I was left to my own devices, so I would get up REALLY early and watch Dragonball and Voltron and old Zatoichi the Blind Samurai movies with a comically oversized bowl of Cocoa Puffs.
Uncle Iroh comes to mind first.
Sure. I'm still rocking a Crunchyroll subscription.
"History is not always kind to its subjects" - Uncle Iroh
Anything Goes: The Wind Rises Series Cartoon: Batman TAS.
I'm going to super cheat and say Doctor Who, especially the 11th Doctor. (There's animated DW, it counts!) Otherwise, Donatello comes to mind.
I think I'd enjoy a fantasy isekai, even if I didn't last long. Ascendance of a Bookworm or Knights and Magic come to mind.
Obviously. They're damn near omnipotent.
Voltron (GoLion) for sure.
Never got the love it deserved.
Life is like a hurricane....
The Transformer movie.
Still....Daaaaamn.
Except the drug disfigured him and left him with fractured memories of his childhood and a permanent sense of deja vu - he knew he had fairy godparents even with his memories broken. He wasn't obsessed with faeries - he was obsessed with fixing his broken mind. Timmy ruined his life.
Denzel Crocker from Fairy Oddparents has one of the most tragic backstories possible. He was a genuinely good person, and when he had Cosmo and Wanda, he made people's lives better. Timmy Turner (who is only in it for himself) went back in time and exposed faeries. So they wiped Crocker's memory -
Rugrats, almost certainly.
BraveStarr....which answers "What if He-Man was a space western instead?"
Probably Looney Tunes.
This is just gay-baiting from professional scumbag Ted Cruz. Amazingly, you can be both gay and very good at public policy, Ted, you trash can.
He really managed to massage his own record.
Bone-petite. These people are so fucking stupid. Just monumentally staggeringly stupid.
This Giuliani thing feels like he was soliciting. If the woman mentioned wasn't there at the accident, why mention her in the statement? Plus the whole, "Please contact this "almost certainly a lawyer" for anything, because Rudy is hurt" statement. Also, the sudden haste to pin a medal on him...
Nate Silver is the heir apparent to James Carville in being the political guy whose relevance was decades ago, who now mostly exists to go on centrist or right-wing media and blame the left for the failures of neoliberalism.
Just so you know how evil this is - this is about a charity that brought young children with horrific injuries to the US for treatment. Laura Loomer (professional ghoul) pointed this out. But the US doesn't want to look bad by only banning really injured kids, so they just banned everyone instead.
Also, is it just me or does this post seem slightly off. I've read so much Trump social media that this feels not like a Trump post....it feels like somebody else trying to make a facsimile of a Trump post. Anybody agree/disagree?
For those not familiar with Sir Keir because they only like US politics, think of Keir as the UK John Fetterman - sold himself as a principled somewhat leftist alternative to a hyper-conservative, won, and immediately sold out everything and now sounds like the people we wanted him to fight.
As for the post-election dip, every social media outlet gets way less active between election cycles. Twitter analysts suggest they've lost 100M users since November, and nobody seems to really care. This guy is just another baby-brained centrist wishing we'd be nicer to Jesse Singal. Fuck that.
This means that when advertisers come, they should expect a much better rate of conversion, which means Bluesky can charge more for less. Also, the demos here are excellent - Bluesky is younger and more affluent than X by a longshot. Bluesky is also more tech savvy, more likely to be foodies, etc.
This asshat disabled all responses like a fucking coward, but I'm going to respond anyway. He is right that Bluesky needs to monetize eventually, but its ability is way stronger than most people think - the reason every news outlet and journalist loves this place is the engagement and click rate.
Automatic ballwashers = trash. Dogboy ballwasher = class.
Polish Hat dude isn't even in my top 10.
Should be there. Confirm?
I got you. I'm going to be blazing on my deck all day. LICD is share a bit. 40 incoming.
This is complete bullshit, trying to save the image of Joe Biden. There should be no conflict between a humanitarian crisis affecting millions of people and a desire to supply weapons that will only further the conflict.
It's Trump, but with half the IQ and absolutely none of the charisma. I routinely refer to the Trump sons as "My two sons, American Psycho Trump, and Thirtyfive Chromosomes Trump." - Guess which one he is. When the old man kicks, MAGA is DoA. www.rawstory.com/eric-trump-2...
I'm telling you right now, you're not drawing a damned thing from my lips. I'll never talk.
Slinger over Garbage Plate forever, but I also do wonder how two cities far apart (Rochester and Saint Louis) came up with surprisingly similar concepts...
Are you in Saint Louis? I've never seen a slinger anywhere outside the metro. If you are, next time, ask for a black and white slinger. Swaps some of the chili for sausage gravy. It's legit as long as you are okay with a one-day shock and awe campaign against your own heart.
"The French don't have a record of colonizing and conquering countries and forcing their culture on the natives...." BWAHAHAHAHA BWAHAHAHAHAHA BWA.
He also posted this picture as if he played golf with Gruden yesterday. It was from August 23rd. This timeline is way too fucked up for me to have any hope, but ya never know.
Twitter intentionally hides their stats, but most analysts believe they've lost somewhere in the neighborhood of a hundred million users since Nov 2024. Bluesky has nearly doubled - from 20 million to 38.2 million. Can somebody explain why the narrative is Bluesky is dying?
We have a parody of the Press Office, which is itself doing a parody. Things are getting weird. But I do appreciate somebody pointing out the man's crimes against English.
It's almost like printing a card that can give you a potentially insane amount of Izzet mana might make Izzet really good....
It's a low percentage chance...like so low, but if Hell's toothy maw decides to open twice today, could be a banger opening to Fall.
People constantly flex on wanting normal people to go to Congress. Here's a chance to have a normal guy unseat one of the swampiest Senators in recent history. #MakeSusanVeryConcernedAgain
It's current rep, John Carter, is considered pretty moderate, and he has to be - he needs white Austin suburbanites to break at about a third for him to ensure the rural votes will carry. If Gomez wins that primary, Dems should consider the district in play.
She's running in TX-31, which is a result of the gerrymander in 2020. It's basically a diluted Austin district, where they glued the North Austin suburbs with a bunch of the rural counties between North Austin and Dallas. It's R+11 on a good day. However, it's a bad district for her - it's moderate.
3. She is a perfect maximal distillation of MAGA. This is her winred photo. ✅Holding a gun she barely knows how to use. ✅Cybertruck ✅Homophobic slur (on the glasses!) ✅No substantive policies at all. ✅Islamophobia ✅Trying to exploit gerrymandering (see next post) ✅Twitter abuse / trolling
A few thoughts on this absolute psychopath: 1. I love that Texas is the last resort for lunatics. She finished fifth in Missouri and gravitated between racist and racist parody. So she went to Texas. 2. I wouldn't waste too many cycles on her. She really only has "being awful for attention". (cont)
Look...I've seen your flag on the marble arch.
I wouldn't want to break TOS and wish Ill on somebody, but I have an unopened bottle of Blanton's Gold earmarked for a certain death announcement, and I'd love to crack it open.
If the crowd is speaking French, Sami Zayn has a chance! I met him years and years ago at an RoH show. Loved him them. Love him now.
I don't think we're hating hard enough. Fuck RFK Sr for not having the sense to put his fucked up kid in the path of his assassin's bullet. The wrong Kennedy died.
If you live in Louisiana, please realize that this is Cassidy covering his ass. He sold his principles out to keep the White House off his ass, and now he's desperate to avoid being the face of vaccine denialism. Fuck him and RFK.
Oooh, Starset. I recommend the TRANSMISSIONS album. Good place to start.
We can't do much about the former, but the latter can only be approved by ballot initiative. So this will come to the people of Missouri, and we have to be prepared to reject it. Then in 2026, we need to fight like hell to ruin the political careers of Mark Alford, Sam Graves, and Ann Wagner.
Remember, funny on Twitter does not equal good leadership.
But what if you really don't care for music?
I know Mannarino is a fascist shitstain with zero influence, most famous for his fake black woman account, but we need to be vigilant. Be ready to intervene and protect your trans friends by any means ne necessary.
Also, please take this as my semi-daily post where I again remind everybody that James Carville is a fucking useless piece of shit who's been expired from political relevance for OVER 30 years. Fuck that neocon muppet.
I swear, there is a whole class of the shittiest, dumbest, most divisive neolibs who exist to do nothing but bitch and moan and mooch free airtime from right-wing television. The DNC is right. The Lakota were the original stewards of the land. The city is named MINNEAPOLIS. MINNE IS SIOUX FOR WATER,
I think whether you're right or not is yet to be written. There's a whole generation of young men who have fallen into a cultish right-wing shitscape. I was one of them for a minute. I got better, but we can't guarantee that everyone or even most will.
Johnson was looking for an excuse to support the most conservative viable candidate. The idiot with the sign gave him one.
The net effect of being far more concerned about doing something to appeal to your base then checking the legality of it.
Apparently, the inevitably of death came for her political career before it came for the rest of us. Enjoy your retirement, you soulless bitch.
If the US turns into a one-party country because of this, we should remember the outright cowardice and equivocation of @genewu.bsky.social and the Texas Democrats (and the DNC overall). They could have done something, but it was too inconvenient on their schedules.
Thoughts: -This is embarrassing and staggeringly corrupt. -The UN needs to make a decision - are you an international organization built towards worldwide cooperation or are you an arm of US hegemony? -We have to admit that we're the fucking bad guys now. A safer world and US hegemony do not align.
"Our right-wingers are an insane death cult, so we should just cater to their medical ideologies at all times." - Mark Cuban.
I imagine the same ones that United and Cigna and Kaiser deny because their cost/benefit analyses say that it's more profitable to have that patient die than pay for the treatment is at least a starting point. Pretending that capitalist health care doesn't restrict anything is a delusion.
Twitter survived for what...a decade with no revenue? What demo are you looking for, Mark? The shitposter kids with frog avatars? The race realists? Which group of degenerates do you want us to cater to so you can get your fucking seed money back?
His weird obsession with people showing gratitude to President Trump is odd.
He mis-heard "gigantic piece of shit" as "greatest President".
We should remember this and immediately revoke the protections for Trump's children on January 21st.
We have to be prepared to subvert all norms in terms of our response. I don't expect neolibs to be willing, but if there is, we may have to live with it just to have a government we can fix in 2032 and beyond.
I am dead serious about this. I fucking hate Gavin Newsom, but if he says he will remove corrupt trump judges, by force if necessary, prosecute the Trump administration and if necessary, rendition them, and permanently ban them from government work, I'll swallow the rest. We need somebody mean.
The problem isn't that he's an amoral cunt with no concern for the law or legal procedure beyond "how do I bend the law for right-wing ideology" - it's that 50 Senators, most of whom are lawyers, voted for this shitstain for a lifetime role. Dems need somebody willing to break every norm in future.
Just in case anybody comes across this before they go looking - this person couldn't be more up their own ass. They are playing the solo version of human centipede. There is a long screed from her justifying her BS becauses....(checks notes)...her building mate leaves the hallway window open.
"We should reform FDA so there is approving drugs after their sponsors have demonstrated safety – and let people start using them, at their own risk, but not much risk of safety....Let’s prove efficacy after they’ve been legalized." Lots of people are going to die.
So RFK replaced the CDC director for not rubber-stamping his bullshit with a stooge - Jim O'Neill, who has nothing resembling formal medical experience. In 2014, he said -
Video games taught me that caring about others can be difficult, but is ultimately rewarding.
My university had an arcade with SoulCalibur 2, and the local competitive players would show up and train. Every quarter was an invitation to war, and every victory was hard earned. That group was so good that our Conquest mode was cutthroat. It was so much fun.
Showbiz Pizza.
More Of: Challenging the audience to think about things. Spec Ops: The Line will always be a favorite for that. Less Of: Remakes that don't do much. Slightly better sprites isn't worth much to me. Color outside the lines. Less Of (in-game): Difficulty curves that are just "more health bar/damage"
Paper Mario.
Mass Effect.
A turn-based RPG called Hero of the Crystalline Soul - the primary mechanic would be "soul radiance", where your actions and combat decisions affected the nature of your soul, unlocking new dialogue options and strengthening and weakening certain combat abilities.
I will defend Final Fantasy VI forever.
Balatro is one of my favorite games, and it could have played easily on the Sega Saturn.
I think I'm just pretty okay with most From Soft games. I can beat them, but sometimes, it feels like you're just chaining reps until the RNG loves you.
Super Mario Bros 3. If you really want, you can beat that game very quickly and eventually, you'll perfect it. If you want more money, don't use flutes. Wanna have an easy day at the office? Star World, baybee!
The old Yu-Gi-Oh games that ignored the rules of the card game entirely.
The My Time series. (My Time at Portia / My Time at Sandrock)
I think the OG NES Legend of Zelda. Either that or Bionic Commando.
The Assassin's Creed Series. They make good ones, and then they make very awful ones.
"Well, apparently there's a limit. It's somewhere between a nice sunny day and THE FULL CONCENTRATED POWER OF THE SUN!" I will love @neilnewbon.bsky.social forever.
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Still think it's one of the few truly perfect video games.